16.10.2011 04:49, Felipe Sanches kirjoitti:
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, John Cliff<john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
Anyone seen anything about the new nvidia path rendering extension? May have some potential, and an nvidia guy responded to a post on the forum offering help if anyones interested in looking at it.
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=10108
Cheers
Sim
The official NVIDIA drivers are proprietary and I guess that Nouveau does not support that yet and would probably require some nasty reverse engineering to do it. We shouldn't put effort on supporting a vendor-specific API that requires users to install proprietary drivers.
Not all inkscape users on linux have any qualms about the propietary drivers, be it due to ideology or any other reason. There are still some clear advantages like better power management and video acceleration (vdpau) as far as I can tell. And remember, linux is just one of the platforms inkscape supports. Wouldn't this extension be available in Windows (and OS X?) as well?
If these features become standard OpenGL in the future, then we hope that libre drivers will implement them and then we may consider supporting them. But we would still have to be careful to make it optional, so that the users always have a choice.
Why would you make acceleration optional, as long as there's no downside? Isn't it enough to check for the extension and use it if it's available?
happy hacking, Felipe Sanches
- Jari